Our 8th grade class touring DC stayed at this hotel. The rooms smelled of smoke, the carpets were filthy, the sheets were old, dirty and worn, the lobby carpet is black with stains and the elevator rarely works. DO NOT stay here-no matter how cheap the room rate is. The clientele in the other rooms were extremely sketchy-along with their activities. LONG commute in DC every day.

Whatever you do, STAY AWAY! When we arrived at the Laurel or Ramada (or whatever you want to call it) our room had no toilet paper or towels. When we called for towels they brought us some that looked that they had been used to change the oil on a car. I am pretty sure that the room had never been vaccuumed. The non-smoking room smelled like nothing but old cigarretts. When I got ready to crawl into bed I noticed that there were ashes in the sheets (obviously has not been washed). When my husband went down in the morning to get coffee he said there was one cup and sugar everywhere. The guy on duty was sleeping at the desk. Yes, it only cost us $45, but next time I will definitely pay a little extra for a clean room. We left at 7AM because we could not wait to get out of there!!!

This is a great location to stay in Laurel, MD. Big Hotel with inside and outside rooms of your choice. Impressive lobby and rooms in the Tower. Great value.

I recently stayed there with my Youth Church Group because it was a miday point between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore since we were going to visit both places.  Upon entering my non-smoking room, I immediately smelled cigarette smoke.  I turned on the A/C to get some air circulating and looked up at the ceiling to see that the room's smoke detector had been ripped off the wall, wires were sticking out, the qeen sized beds we were expecting based on information from the website were nonexistent - we had small doubles and the exhaust fan in the bathroom did not work.  I called the front desk requesting additional towels in the room and had to physically go to the front desk twice to remind them, needless to say I finally received the towels at 9:45 that night. The hotel boasts about having a restuarant, however the restaurant was closed on the day we checked in (a Monday).  There is a menu for the restaurant in each room, however that was not updated - we took the youth downstairs expecting an all you can eat buffet (based on the menu in the room) only to find that only thing open was the bar.  The hotel website also boasts about having high speed wireless internet, but no one could get a connection anywhere on-site.  There were some hotel guests smoking directly in front of the door leading to the non-smoking rooms and smoke was just wafting through the hallway.  We walked through the smoke to complain at the front desk and were told, "Oh, they are guests, they just rent out our banquet room for their monthly meetings, but we have told them numerous times that they are not to do that" and if we saw them again to please come and let them know.  We only stayed two nights, but it was not pleasant.  Most of the people traveling with me had complaints.  I voiced these when we checked out, gave my contact information and was told a manager would be calling me later that day.  When I didn't hear from him, I called back the next day and left him a message.  It has been a week and I still haven't heard from him.  If you have to be in Laurel, Maryland DO NOT stay in the Laurel Inn, formerly the Ramada Inn Laurel.